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Deutsche Börse bids to reinvent post-trade with DLT-based D7 project

Deutsche Börse is preparing for the phased launch of a new cloud-backed and DLT-ready platform, D7, paving the way for same-day-issuance and paperless, automated straight-through processing for the entire value chain of issuance, custody, settlement, payment and asset servicing for digital securities.

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BNY Mellon joins trade finance blockchain network Marco Polo

BNY Mellon has joined a consortium working to introduce blockchain technology into international trade finance and digitize how working capital is provided to both suppliers and buyers across the globe.

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SBI, Sygnum and Azimut launch $75 million digital asset venture fund

SBI Group, Sygnum and Azimut Group have created a $75 million venture capital fund to invest in start-up companies in the digital asset sector.

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Visa bids to make digital currencies interoperable

Visa is working on a 'universal payment channel' (UPC) that enables interoperability between different digital currencies such as CBDCs and private stablecoins.

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Ripple launches $250 million 'Creator Fund' for NFT projects

Ripple is creating a $250 million fund to provide financial and technical support to developers looking to craft premium NFT projects issued on the XRP Ledger (XRPL).

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BitPay blockchain brings crypto payments to Verifone terminals

BitPay, the world’s largest provider of bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment services, and Verifone, a global FinTech leader and payment solution provider to the world’s largest retail brands, today announce the extension of BitPay’s blockchain payment technology to enable consumer cryptocurrency payments on Verifone’s in-store and eCommerce Cloud Services platforms in the United States.

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Sustainable finance, crypto and blockchain on Esma agenda for 2022

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has published its 2022 Annual Work Programme (AWP), setting out its priority work areas for the next 12 months to deliver on its mission to enhance investor protection and promote stable and orderly financial markets.

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BIS: CBDC and DLT combo outperforms correspondent banking system

A prototype of multiple central bank digital currencies (mCBDCs) developed by the Bank for International Settlements and four central banks has demonstrated the potential of using digital currencies and distributed ledger technology (DLT) for cheaper and safer cross-border payments and settlements.

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Archax subsidiary Montis Digital to launch blockchain based digital post-trade infrastructure

Archax, the first FCA regulated digital securities exchange, broker, and custodian, has today announced its subsidiary, Montis Digital, which is building digitally native, blockchain based post-trade infrastructure to allow tokenised assets, such as digital securities or security tokens, to realise their full potential.

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Baton Systems appoints capital markets veteran Jerome Kemp as president

Baton Systems (“Baton”), the fintech transforming asset movements and settlements with solutions based on distributed ledger technology, has announced the appointment of Jerome Kemp as the company’s President.

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DBS hunts for top tech talent via hack2Hire programme

DBS is to recruit 150 of Singapore’s top technology talent to bolster its AI and blockchain capabilities via its hack2Hire programme.

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VCPlus acquires Apec Solutions

SGX-Catalist listed VCPlus Limited (“VCPlus” or the “Company, and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") is pleased to announce that it has on 27 September 2021 signed a sale and purchase agreement with Mr Cedric Yap Kun Hao (the "Vendor") to acquire APEC Solutions Pte. Ltd. and its subsidiaries (“APEC Solutions”) for a consideration of S$5 million (the “Consideration”), which is to be satisfied with the issuance and allotment of 172,413,793 in new VCPlus ordinary shares (“Consideration Shares”) to the Vendor at price of S$0.0290 per new Consideration Share, a share premium of 16.0%1 (the “Proposed Acquisition”).

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Big banks join post-trade DLT joint venture Marketnode

A host of big banks have joined Marketnode, a digital asset joint venture from Singapore Exchange and Temasek focused on capital markets workflows through smart contracts, ledger and tokenisation technologies.

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Singapore and Malaysia link faster payment systems

Fresh from a faster payments link-up with India, the Monetary Authority of Singapore has announced plans to commence a phased linkage of the country's PayNow plumbing with Malaysia’s DuitNow real-time payment systems.

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Bhutan to pilot digital currency with Ripple tech

The central bank of Bhutan is to use Ripple's CBDC Private Ledger to pilot a central bank digital currency.

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FCA to use blockchain to speed up regulatory reporting

The Financial Conduct Authority is working with the Bank of England on a blockchain-based digital regulatory reporting initiative to tackle the growing costs of compliance checks.

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Ex-SEB and RBS bankers join DLT-based RegTech startup ALT/AVE

Brian Guckian, ex-SEB, and Andrew Taylor, ex-RBS, have joined ALT/AVE, the London-based RegTech startup that is using distributed ledger technology to securely communicate with customers.

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Money 20/20 EU: Will Europe prevail in the new dawn of payments?

Amsterdam: Finextra is on the ground at Money 20/20 Europe, attending a host of sessions to provide you with key highlights from the most popular sessions throughout the conference.

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Figure ATS completes first blockchain-based security transaction

Figure Technologies, Inc. (Figure™), a leader in transforming financial services through the power of blockchain technology, today announced it completed a first of its kind digital securities transaction using Figure ATS, an alternative trading system that is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and that is part of Figure’s Marketplace trading platform.

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VTB Bank investigate use of blockchain for shipment of steel products

VTB Bank and PJSC Severstal have developed a new scenario for the unified industry register of quality certificates for metal products. The initiative will make it possible to speed up the shipment of metal products, as well as to carry it out without reference to banking days, including weekends and holidays.